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**Hugh** · 20-04-2012, 16:27

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Originally Posted by Alan Fry

Lets put it this way, while George Galloway is of the Far left he and his party "Respect" have become nothing but a joke and sadly so has the Far Left in general, the main issue that has caused this is after 9/11 they did a deal with the devil, they allied themselfs against the War on Terror and sided with Islamists (who would normally consider them as unislamic), since then they have complained about Iraq and Afganistan etc, along with a Anti-Israel bias!

But its not just that, George Galloway himself is a publicty seeker and a Bad MP, he and his party represent the worst of the left, if I was talking to some young (and old) lefties, I would tell them to look away from idiots like George Galloway and more to Nick Cohen, Christopher Hitchens and Peter Tatchell

(As for Ken Livingstone, while he also has too close links with Islamists, at least he has done good thnigs for London)

A) Christopher Hitchens is dead
B) You may find this interview with Chris Hitchens of interest....

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I forget whether I said I was an ex-socialist, or recovering Marxist, or whatever, but that would have been provisional or stylistic. The thing I’ve often tried to point out to people from the early days of the Thatcher revolution in Britain was that the political consensus had been broken, and from the right. The revolutionary, radical forces in British life were being led by the conservatives. That was something that almost nobody, with the very slight exception of myself, had foreseen.

I’d realized in 1979, the year she won, that though I was a member of the Labour Party, I wasn’t going to vote for it. I couldn’t bring myself to vote conservative. That’s purely visceral. It was nothing to do with my mind, really. I just couldn’t physically do it. I’ll never get over that, but that’s my private problem.

But I did realize that by subtracting my vote from the Labour Party, I was effectively voting for Thatcher to win. That’s how I discovered that that’s what I secretly hoped would happen. And I’m very glad I did. I wouldn’t have been able to say the same about Reagan, I must say. But I don’t think he had her intellectual or moral courage.